Word: balms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenants of the massive co-op across the way. He even winds up marrying one of them (Jennifer Salt). By this time his film career has gone sour, his debut in radical theater has been a bust, and his new calling as "an urban guerrilla" seems threatened by the balm of matrimony and impending fatherhood...
...functions. By mocking the black's own intolerable position, it bolstered his emerging self-awareness as he marched on Selma and Washington. At the same time, it pricked the white's guilt feelings by chastening him for years of brutal apathy, then soothed his conscience with the balm of newfound empathy. Says Black Comic Stu Gilliam: "Until we marched in the streets, no one was interested in what the black man had to say. That's why we didn't have talking acts per se-only singing and dancing. Then black comedians became a link...
...back gets very stiff and I put heat balm on it," he says. "The balls of my feet hurt too, so now I put the footpads on before the pain starts. The tension sometimes gives me a pain in the stomach, a nerve ache. So I take pills for that, and then I take another tablet that's full of minerals. It seems to help my vision...